BUTASTUR. 87 



Gray, Gen. Bird, i. p. 30 ; Jerd. B, of Ind. i. p. 92; Hume, Eonrjh 

 Notes, ii. p. 286 ; id. Stray Feather.^, p. 159; Murray, Hdbli., Zool., 8j'c , 

 Bind, p. 115 (1873). — The Zuggun Falcon or White-eyed Buzzard. 



Adidt Male. — Above umber or pale rufous brown, the feathers 

 margined paler, and with dark shaft-stripes. Forehead and a nuchal mark 

 white. Ear-coverts light brown, the feathers very lax. Lores white, 

 with elongate stiff hair-like feathers, the edges of the under man- 

 dible also with stiff bristles. Rump and upper tail-coverts rufous 

 brown, the rump with dark shaft-stripes, and the upper tail-coverts with 

 dark cross bars. Tail pale rufous, tipped with buffy white and crossed 

 with 6 — 7 indistinct bars, the subterminal one black and broadest; 

 wing-coverts like the back, the median series mottled light brown 

 and whitish. Primary coverts dark brown, externally shaded greyish. 

 Outer webs of primaries dark brown, frosted over with ashy grey, 

 and broadly tipped , with darker brown. Inner web pale brown 

 between the black tip and emargination of the first four qnills, and 

 white beyond, with a few faint dark incomplete bars. The secondaries 

 pale brown,half the inner webs, with 4 — 5 bars of dark brown and tipped 

 darker; outer web of the secondaries pale brown with a rufous tinge, 

 tipped blackish, and with faint traces of transverse bars. 



Chin and throat white or yellowish white, bordered on each side with 

 a black moustachial sti-ipe from the base of the lower mandible, and 

 one of the same colour down the centre of the chin and throat. Breast 

 pale rufous brown, with yellowish white or fulvous spots, the 'feathers 

 dark shafted. Rest of under surface buffy white, barred with rufescent 

 brown. Under wing-coverts white, some of the feathers streaked and 

 spotted with rufous brown. Thigh-coverts pale fulvous or buffy white, 

 most of the feathers with a subterminal triangular patch of rufous 

 brown. Yent and lower tail- coverts white, some of the feathers with 

 a subterminal band or triangular patch of rufous brown; under surface 

 of tail feathers greyish white, the transverse band showing through in 

 all but the exterior feather. 



Legs and feet dingy orange yellow. Iris pale yellowish white. 

 Eyelid orange yellow. 



Length. — 16'75 to 18-5 inches, culmen r4, wing 11 to 12-5, tail 

 6-65 to 7-8, tarsus 2 to 2-15. 



Hab. — Sind, Beloochistan, Persia; Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Oudb, 

 Bengal, Nepaul ; Behar, Kattiawar, Deccan, Concans, Cutcli, Rajputana, 

 and N. Guzerat. 



Gen. Circus. — Lacep. 



Upper mandible slightly festooned ; lower emai'ginate. Nostrils 

 round, with no bony excrescence. Tarsi long and slender, naked ; 

 wings long; the first quill not so long as the fifth, the third or fourth 

 longest ; cere large, surrounded with a ruff of setaceous curved 

 plumes. 



Circus . macrurus,. jS. G. Gmel. N. Comm. Petmp. xv. p. 439, 

 Circus Swainsonii, Smith, 8. Afr. Q. Journ. i. p. 384; Graij, Gen. B. 



